The obvious answer is because the entire thing was a hoax. Ron Howard was contacted at the time (he was already 15 and NASA computers predicted he would be a great film director) and asked what would make his movie (already planned for production in 1995 back in the 70's) dramatic, and he came up with this idea.
It should also be pointed out that Tom Hanks is a robot specifically made to star in Apollo 13, which explains his meteoric rise to acting stardom. In fact, Bosom Buddies was created to serve as his vehicle by NASA.
NASA has more plans in place for both Ron and Tom in further upcoming movies about the "moon landings". Just you wait.
I'm unimpressed by Caltech if they can't pull pranks that are better than the pranks MIT pulls on itself.
Be fair, it's much easier to pull pranks on yourself. You know the people, you know the places, you have ID cards that match the school you're at, you probably have keys to HVAC facilities, you know what stores are where, you know how to drive in Boston(!), you have easy access to class schedules
The list goes on and on. The valid comparison would be to see what MIT could do to Caltech.
Fine and good, I'm sure they had to compress an awful lot.
But can you possibly imagine a world in which a man who has spent 20 years obsessively chronically DA's work, life and writings to have anything good to say about a movie adaptation?
It's inconceivable. People who obsess over the writings NEVER like the movies, because no movie will ever be able to match the version of the story in their head. And unlike non-obsessed people, the idea that the version of Marvin in their head may not match the idea of Marvin in the author's head. They think they've distilled the true essence of what the author was trying to convey.
For the record, I don't like the movie Marvin, doesn't match the version in my head, but it doesn't necessarily mean the movie is bad, just that I have to get used to it. I wasn't particularly found of Aragorn's character, or the choice of Liv Tyler either... at first. But I love the movie and ended up appreciating their roles in the end.
Students have challenged the scores, but if they don't use the right lingo in their papers, they're out of luck. "In sociology, we want them to learn the terms," Brent said
Fine, if you scanned the surrounding tissue down to the molecular level (oh, and you certainly would have to) so that you could understand exactly how the intervening tissue would interfere, and you had a device complex enough to reverse engineer the necessary input pattern to produce not just activity centered on one 50 micron spot, but a simultaneous and dynamic pattern of activation among thousands if not millions of such 50 micron spots.... THEN it would work.
I'm guessing the amount of computation to compute the precise spatiotemporal pattern of extracranial sources necesary to interfere in exactly the right dynamical pattern would be......beyond comprehension.
Before you move to invasively violating the womb so that you can prenatally train kids to pick up on Ultrasound input....Just... implant... something...into....the goddamned...cortex. It's so much easier.
SONY can plan to fly to the moon by flapping their arms if they want, doesn't mean it will happen.
Now it's true that directional ultrasound could, maybe, in theory, be used to selectively stimulate deep structures of the brain.
But this is never something you would use on consumers. Not ever in a hundred years, no matter how many dozens of forms they'd signed, or how many thousands of lawyers you had in the kennel.
It's so stupidly dangerous, especially if used repeatedly. Would you try to program your computer with a 9v battery and a pair of wires?
There is no way in God's Green Earth that you can transnsmit a meaningful signal to the brain wirelessly through the skull. They even say it themselves in the article that you can't even target *groups* of neurons.
It's about the laws of physics. The fields just spread too much to allow you to target neurons.
Maybe with vast (!!!!) improvements in technology, we could selectively activate a region of the brain, making someone feel a particular way (happy, sad, horny, religious), but it would be sloppy, dangerous and need to be tuned to a particular individual.
Under NO conceivable circumstances within the universe that we currently live could you uninvasively transmit any detailed information, through the skull as the article (and presumably the patent) implies.
The amount of things an astronaut has to do in a mission would blow your mind. their minds are crammed so full of data, theory and procedures, that it takes many months of drilling to get it packed in their.
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The obvious answer is because the entire thing was a hoax. Ron Howard was contacted at the time (he was already 15 and NASA computers predicted he would be a great film director) and asked what would make his movie (already planned for production in 1995 back in the 70's) dramatic, and he came up with this idea.
It should also be pointed out that Tom Hanks is a robot specifically made to star in Apollo 13, which explains his meteoric rise to acting stardom. In fact, Bosom Buddies was created to serve as his vehicle by NASA.
NASA has more plans in place for both Ron and Tom in further upcoming movies about the "moon landings". Just you wait.
In my experience, practically every English speaker I've ever met
Surely you are referring to American English then.
It must be cultural or regional
It is. I'm in the UK. I consider British English the gold standard for word definitions.
A couple thousand is two thousand.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=couple
A few people are sloppy and let couple refer to the "few", meaning, but most people prefer the definition referring to a pair.
He is joking.
He's raising the standard array of moon-hoax objections.
Sadly, they sound about that stupid.
Actually some journals now charge nominal fees for submissions because they are getting Swamped.
I think Journal of Neuroscience is doing this.
It's like we're watching the Terri Schiavo drama all over again, with NASA repeatedly yanking and then replacing life support.
There's a nail driven into that wood. You hit it on the head.
I would also like to criticize B5 dialog as being of grade-school level.
Never had a chance to grow through 4 seasons?
As a Firefly fan, I'd like to be the first to tell you to shut your goddamned piehole.
There should be touch sensors in there so that they can play Missile Command with their feet.
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The Lameness filter forces me to add something so:
You're not nearly as smart as you think you are.
I'm unimpressed by Caltech if they can't pull pranks that are better than the pranks MIT pulls on itself.
Be fair, it's much easier to pull pranks on yourself. You know the people, you know the places, you have ID cards that match the school you're at, you probably have keys to HVAC facilities, you know what stores are where, you know how to drive in Boston(!), you have easy access to class schedules
The list goes on and on. The valid comparison would be to see what MIT could do to Caltech.
Fine and good, I'm sure they had to compress an awful lot.
But can you possibly imagine a world in which a man who has spent 20 years obsessively chronically DA's work, life and writings to have anything good to say about a movie adaptation?
It's inconceivable. People who obsess over the writings NEVER like the movies, because no movie will ever be able to match the version of the story in their head. And unlike non-obsessed people, the idea that the version of Marvin in their head may not match the idea of Marvin in the author's head. They think they've distilled the true essence of what the author was trying to convey.
For the record, I don't like the movie Marvin, doesn't match the version in my head, but it doesn't necessarily mean the movie is bad, just that I have to get used to it. I wasn't particularly found of Aragorn's character, or the choice of Liv Tyler either... at first. But I love the movie and ended up appreciating their roles in the end.
oooo zing!
lammmmmenessssss filllllltttteeerrrrrrrr
Americans got too stupid to accept our own currency.
What's next?
Here's a good quote from the article:
Students have challenged the scores, but if they don't use the right lingo in their papers, they're out of luck. "In sociology, we want them to learn the terms," Brent said
Awesome!
Sigh,
Fine, if you scanned the surrounding tissue down to the molecular level (oh, and you certainly would have to) so that you could understand exactly how the intervening tissue would interfere, and you had a device complex enough to reverse engineer the necessary input pattern to produce not just activity centered on one 50 micron spot, but a simultaneous and dynamic pattern of activation among thousands if not millions of such 50 micron spots.... THEN it would work.
I'm guessing the amount of computation to compute the precise spatiotemporal pattern of extracranial sources necesary to interfere in exactly the right dynamical pattern would be......beyond comprehension.
I give. You're right.
Before you move to invasively violating the womb so that you can prenatally train kids to pick up on Ultrasound input....Just... implant... something...into....the goddamned...cortex. It's so much easier.
It is not that we are violating Conservation of Energy, it's that we've figured out that matter IS energy, and we can switch them back and forth.
SONY can plan to fly to the moon by flapping their arms if they want, doesn't mean it will happen.
Now it's true that directional ultrasound could, maybe, in theory, be used to selectively stimulate deep structures of the brain.
But this is never something you would use on consumers. Not ever in a hundred years, no matter how many dozens of forms they'd signed, or how many thousands of lawyers you had in the kennel.
It's so stupidly dangerous, especially if used repeatedly. Would you try to program your computer with a 9v battery and a pair of wires?
This is a far dumber idea than that.
You are right...
But as I understand it, there is zero room for subjectivity in this competition.
Your program is right, or it is not.
I am a Neuroscientist.
There is no way in God's Green Earth that you can transnsmit a meaningful signal to the brain wirelessly through the skull. They even say it themselves in the article that you can't even target *groups* of neurons.
It's about the laws of physics. The fields just spread too much to allow you to target neurons.
Maybe with vast (!!!!) improvements in technology, we could selectively activate a region of the brain, making someone feel a particular way (happy, sad, horny, religious), but it would be sloppy, dangerous and need to be tuned to a particular individual.
Under NO conceivable circumstances within the universe that we currently live could you uninvasively transmit any detailed information, through the skull as the article (and presumably the patent) implies.
Oh my god how did this drivel get modded up?
The amount of things an astronaut has to do in a mission would blow your mind. their minds are crammed so full of data, theory and procedures, that it takes many months of drilling to get it packed in their.
The heat has to go somewhere, it doesn't magically disappear just because you put fans in the case.
More to the point, more fans mean more power, more power means more heat.
Cooling the room lets you focus your efforts on one part of the system that is external to the room.
On the other hand, HVAC systems break all the time and it would suck to lose a million dollars of equipment every time it happened.
Before anyone else chimes in, yes he's being sarcastic.
ease down Ripley...